Posts tagged #marvel

"This Week on Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Podcast

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Troy Benjamin and filed under TV and tagged marvel marvel cinematic universe marvel comics agents of s.h.i.e.l.d. marvel's agents of s.h.i.e.l.d. clark gregg nick blood elizabeth henstridge ming-na wen mark kolpack adrianne palicki ann foley podcast most popular.

Bits & Bobs - 6th Edition

Bits & Bobs collects some of the cool things around the interwebs that I think are noteworthy and worth your time but don't necessarily fill up a full blog post or news item. On with the show...

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BASS (JUST LIKE THE 90'S)

Nerdist has a parody video up today of the catchy "All About That Bass" featuring the ladies of Team Unicorn. While the song may not be your cup of tea (it's definitely not mine), the lyrics are pretty damn clever and get a good guffaw or two. Plus the costume changes and production value, including dancing astromech droids and backup Royal Imperial Guard dancers make it worth a view. And you know, it's the Team Unicorn ladies so... it's worth a view for obvious reasons. For those interested, the Team Unicorn Saturday Morning Cartoon inspired show should be hitting Adult Swim soon.

AGENT CARTER, I PRESUME?

Last night, during its 75th Anniversary documentary special, Marvel released a new trailer for the upcoming Agent Carter series which highlights a fantastic moment between Carter herself and father of a future Iron Man Howard Stark. The clip also introduces us to the original Jarvis, who presumably will be the inspiration of the artificial intelligence J.A.R.V.I.S. utilized by Tony later in the films. I'm really loving the tone of the series, it has that amazing Rocketeer feel (which is the major reason I'm such a fan of the first Cap movie as well) and can't wait to see what the rest of this series brings.

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Troy Benjamin and filed under Bits & Bobs and tagged team unicorn Alison Haislip clare grant Rileah Vanderbilt Milynn Sarley all about that bass marvel marvel cinematic universe peggy carter agent carter.

Bits & Bobs - 5th Edition

Bits & Bobs collects some of the cool things around the interwebs that I think are noteworthy and worth your time but don't necessarily fill up a full blog post or news item. On with the show...

BACK TO THE PILOT TRAINING GROUND

Quick, get in close enough to take a picture of it for the recon mission -- without crashing into it. It's like landing a plane on the aircraft carrier in the NES Top Gun.

Remember the countless hours spent in a DOS environment trying to get X-Wing up and running on your Dad's work PC? I do, I must have spent hours upon hours trying to get all seven of those discs to install only to find that the sound card he had wasn't compatible and I'd have to play without sound. Regardless, so many days and nights were spent behind the controls of an X-Wing fighter in LucasArts' X-Wing simulator. Later on, they released a CD-ROM version for the Mac that I ate up with a spoon, but unfortunately it hasn't worked on any of my computers (along with the fantastic Rebel Assault games) for years. Enter GOG.com who swiped up the rights to X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Sam & Max Hit the Road, and The Secret of Monkey Island and are offering them through their DRM-free download service. Good news right? Bad news is that it's Windows only for X-Wing and TIE Fighter for the time being. Check it out here!

GET READY FOR PHASE THREE FEATURING...

Unless you somehow completely managed to avoid the internet all day yesterday (or any of your friends that are vaguely enthusiasts of popular culture), you probably already know that Marvel held a big Apple-like event at the El Capitan Theater in Hollywood, CA yesterday to announce their movie plans through the year 2019. The biggest surprises of the announcement were the revelations that a Captain Marvel film (based on the most recent and awesome Carol Danvers version of the character) is on the way, and also that the next Avengers film will be a big two-parter revolving around Thanos and his killer hand modeling. And the whole thing is going to kick off with a new Cap movie loosely inspired by the Civil War event. So who wants to update that intense info-graphic of the tentpole movie slate for the next ten years?

TERMINATOR: PARENTHOOD

This week's Entertainment Weekly has a cover story on the upcoming Terminator reboot/reimagining, Terminator: Genisys (which I still can't spell the subtitle of correctly without looking up). In it, they reveal how this new film fits into the continuity and how a new incarnation of Sarah Connor has been raised by... a Cyberdyne model 101? According to the article: "Sarah Connor isn’t the innocent she was when Linda Hamilton first sported feathered hair and acid-washed jeans in the role. Nor is she Hamilton’s steely zero body-fat warrior in 1991’s T2. Rather, the mother of humanity’s messiah was orphaned by a Terminator at age 9. Since then, she’s been raised by (brace yourself) Schwarzenegger’s Terminator—an older T-800 she calls “Pops”—who is programmed to guard rather than to kill. As a result, Sarah is a highly trained antisocial recluse who’s great with a sniper rifle but not so skilled at the nuances of human emotion." Interesting. Apparently it has James Cameron's seal of approval, but we'll see how it all shakes out next July.

Posted on October 29, 2014 by Troy Benjamin and filed under Bits & Bobs and tagged star wars x-wing lucasarts tie fighter monkey island sam & max hit the road marvel marvel cinematic universe black panther avengers captain marvel terminator terminator genesis terminator genisys sarah connor.

2015 - 2020: Just A Dump Truck Full of Sugar or "It's Gonna Be a Good Year"

"No one's gonna be free until nerd persecution ends..."

Warner Bros. and DC Comics just announced their release date plans for DC related films through 2020 and it's pushing up my plans for a "Holy crap, 2015 is the end all be all for pop culture movies" blog. Seriously, get ready for the true revenge of the nerds...

2015 was panning out to be one stellar year in terms of event tentpole films that I'm excited for. But can we talk about the perfect geek storm with what's been mapped out for the next six to eight years?

Check out this schedule of movie releases for 2015 through 2020 (with a little help from CBR):

2015:
May 1: Avengers: Age of Ultron
May 15: Mad Max: Fury Road and Pixels
May 22: Tomorrowland
June 12: Jurassic World
June 19: Fantastic Four
July 1: Terminator: (I Refuse to Spell it Their Weird SyFy Way Until Proven Otherwise) Genesis
July 17: Ant-Man
November 6: Untitled Bond 24 Film
December 18: Star Wars VII

2016:
March 11: Warcraft
March 25: Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice
May 6: Captain America 3
May 27: X-Men: Apocalypse
June 10: Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 
July 8: Untitled Marvel film
Aug. 5: Untitled DC Film
Nov. 11: Sinister Six
December: Avatar 2
Summer (Unknown): Star Wars Spin-Off Film 1
(Unknown): Star Trek 3

2017:
March 3: Untitled Wolverine Sequel
April 7: Pacific Rim 2
May 5: Untitled Marvel Film
May 26: Lego Movie 2
June 23: Untitled DC Film
July 14: Fantastic Four 2 (Fox)
July 28: Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Nov. 3: Untitled Marvel film
Nov. 17: Untitled DC Film
(Unknown): Untitled Sony female Spider-Man spin-off
(Unknown): Sony Venom: Carnage Spider-Man spin-off
(Unknown): Star Wars Film (Episode VIII?)

2018:
March 23: Untitled DC film
May 4: Untitled Marvel film
July 6: Untitled Marvel film
July 13: Untitled Fox Marvel film
July 27: Untitled DC Film
Nov. 2: Untitled Marvel film
(Unknown): Star Wars Spin-Off Film 2

2019:
Apr. 5: Untitled DC Film
May 3: Untitled Marvel film
June 14: Untitled DC Film
(Unknown): Star Wars Film (Episode IX?)

2020:
Apr. 3: Untitled DC Film
June 19: Untitled DC Film
(Unknown): Star Wars Spin-Off Film 3

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Troy Benjamin and filed under Movies and tagged marvel dc comics star wars 2015 movies Jurassic World Avengers Bond Batman Superman.